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TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,173, dated May 6, 1890. Application filed April 22, 1889. Serial llo. 308,127. (No model.) Patented in England July '7, 1888, No. 9,923-

lb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED HENRY IIUTH, gentleman, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Bolney House, Ennismore Gardens, in the county of llliddl -sez; and, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Type-WVriting Machines, (for which I have received Letters Patent in Great ii itain, No. 9,923, dated July 7, 1888,) of which the following is a specification.

My improvements have mainly for their obieot to so construct type-writers that the writing as it progresses shall be fully exposed to the view of the operator. To eiteet thisI dispense with the ordinary inking tape or ribbon now in common use and cause each type which is carried, as usual, at the end of a lever-arm) to be inked by a small inked roller passed over its face each time that it is used. The axes of the lever-arms I range at equal distances apart in a segment 01: a circle,preierably somewhat larger than a semicircle, with the lever-arms turning in planes radial to the center of this circle, so that they may strike radially onto the central point. The paper to be printed on is carried, as usual, by a cylinder, which is traversed a distance endwise after the depression of each neenkcy,

and is at the end of each line brought back to its normal position and turned a short distanee on its axis, as is usual. The cylinder carrying the paper may be at the top of the machine, and the circle in which the axes of the lever-arms are ranged be in a vertical plane parallel with the longitudinal axis of the cylinder, and not far from it, and the finger-keys may be placed at the front, so that the operator faces the side of the cylinder which is struck by the type and has an uninterrupted view of this cylinder, the typelever arms being normally at right angles to the cylinder (or approximately so) and not obstructing his view; or in place of the cylinder being at the top it may be at the bottom, and the circle in which the axes of the lovers are ranged he in a horizontal plane and so arranged that the levers strike down onto the top of the cylinder. \Vith this construe tion there would be an uninterrupted view of the top of the cylinder from the opening between the two ends of the circular segment, and the finger-keys might be placed at this point. This construction is well adapted for being used when the type-arms have movement given to them by electro-magnets and the finger-keys operate contact mechanism for passing electric currents to the magnet coils. Each time that any one or other of the type-lever arms is used I cause the small inle ing-roller on its end which is to ink the type to be drawn over the face of the type before the lever starts into movement, and I also cause the roller to be drawn over an inked surface, so that the roller may be replenished with ink, and similarly when the typelever has made its stroke and returned back to its normal position I cause the ink-roller to again pass over the face of the type. To give these movements to the ink-roller and to the type-arm, the axis of the inking-roller may be carried by an arm jointed to a slide which can be moved endwise to and fro in.

fixed guides, and the arm may be pressed downward by a spring to cause the roller to bear constantly either upon the face of the type or upon the inked surface which sup plies ink to the roller. The slide is drawn in one direction each time that the finger-key used for operating it is depressed and is drawn back in the opposite direction when the finger-key is released. The slide may have a slotted link formed with or attached to it, and a continuation of the type-arm past the typearm axis may carry a pin to enter this slot. Movement is transmitted to the slide or link on the depression of the .tingerkey, either by levers and links or by the action of an electro-magnet, each finger-key in this case being used to complete an electric circuit through the coils of one or other of the magnet-coils each time that it is depressed. By the movement of the slide the inking-rollcr is carried away from in front of the faceof the type on the type-arm, the type-arm remaining at rest until the pin above-mentioned is at the end of the slot. The type-arm is then turned on its axis and the type carried by it made to strike against the paper. When the finger-key is released, the type-arm and slide are brought back by a spring or springs to their normal. position. The same action takes place if the slide is moved end- JNlSG by a lever acted on by an eleetro-magnet.

In order that the inked surface over which the ink-rollers are made to roll each time that they are drawn back may be kept replenished with ink, I make it in the form of a ring, which may be revolved from time to time, so as to cause all parts of its surface to be moved past a roller which bears upon it and which is kept constantly supplied with ink, or is itself an in k-rcservoir.

In order that avariety of type may be used in the machine, each type-arm is made to carry at its end a small rol er, the circumference of which has three, four, or more different kinds of type projecting from it. The roller has a small toothed Wheel on its axis, and the toothe Wheels of all the small rollers on the typearms are made to gear with a toothed segment,- so that by moving the segment endwise more or less in one direction or the other any of the different types can be brought into use, all the type being changed simultaneously. The cylinder which carries the paper that is to be printed on may be traversed to and fro and turned a distance after the completion of each line in any ordinary way.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings annexed show various views of a type-writer constructed according to my invention. Fig. 1 is a front elevation with many of the parts removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section with the upper part in elevation; and Fig. 3 a plan view, mainly in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the upper part only of the machine. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of some of the partsin this figure as seen from the side and rear. Fig. 2 shows an elevation of the parts used for giving movement to one of the uppermost type-arms. Fig. 4 is a plan view, and Fig. 5 a vertical section, of a modification, in which the cylinder that carries the paper is at the bottom of the machine, and in which electro-magnets are used for giving movement to the parts. Fig. 0 shows how in echanism-such as shown at Fig. 5-for giving movement to the type-arms can be operated by finger-key levers, similar to those shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 7 is a side elevation, on a large scale, of the head end of one of the type-arms. Fig. 8 is an end view of one of the type-heads. Fig. 9 shows the three faces of this head.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A is a cylinder, by which the paper to be printed on is carried, as in other type-writers.

l3 1% are lever-arms carrying the type at their ends. They turn on axes ii in planes radial to a central. poi nt A, so that any one or other of the type can be caused to strike at one point on the side of the cylinder A.

B are fixed quadrants used to give support to those lever-arms B which move in planes not much removed from the horizontal. For the lever-arms which move in planesapproaching the vertical these -supporting-(1nadrants are not required.

0 C are slides for giving motion to the le- Ver-arms B. There is one such slide for each arm. A pin 13 on acontinuation of the am past the axis B enters a slot 0, formed in on end of each slide, while the opposite end c the slide is coupled to a crank-lever D.

E E are a series of horizontal parallellevei arms, to which'the several crank-levers D ar coupled by links F. The erank-levers use for giving motion to the uppermost type-k ver arms cannot conveniently be coupled di rectly by links'to any of the horizontal lever E, and are therefore shown to be connecte to intermediate lever-arms G, and these ar coupled by links to the levers E. The lever E turn on a fulcrum E at their rear end, an ncrznan are held up into a horizontal posi tion by springs E H H are finger-keys by which the fron ends of any one or other of the horizontal le vers E can be depressed.

I is a narrow cylinder lined on the insidr With a pad carrying ink.

J J are inking-rollers carried by spring wires K from the slides C.

L is a fixed ring with notches cut in for tin ends of the type-levers B to lie in, one for each lever.

\Vhen a finger-key is depressed, it depresses the front end of one of the horizontal levers E, and thereby turns the crank-lever D, tr which this lever is endwise movement to one of the slides (3. During the first part of the endwise movement of the slide the inking-roller J is carried over the face of the type and passes ontc the ink-pad. \Vhen the inking-roller has passed over the type, the end of the slot 0 in the slide Ccomes up to the pin 13 on the continnatl: f the lever-arm B. The further movement of the slide then causes the lever to turn on its axis and causes the type on the end of the lever-arm to strike against the paper carried. by the cylinder A. At the same time the rear end of the slide is pressed upward by a spring 0 so that the pin B passes into a short branch slot 0, which is at right angles to the slot 0. \Vhen the pressure on the finger-key is released, the parts return. to their former positions. The lever-arm I3 is made to return during the first part of the back ward movement by reason of the pin li then lying in the branch slot C and when the arm has completed its movement it retained by the pin 13 passing into the slot 0 as the slide continues its backward move ment. To insure that the pin B shall pass from the branch slot C" at the proper time, the arm I; at the end of its return movement is made to strike against the slide and to move it against the pressure of the spring 0 As the slide completes its return movement, the inking-WT: r J is carried off the inking-eyiinder I and over the type on the end of the arm 13.

The inking-cylinder I is, as shown, capable of being turned in fixed ring-guides M. It has spring projections I standing out from it at intervals. These carry blocks 1 which coupled, and. so givesan bear against and fit to the fixed rings M. \Vhenever the inking-cylinder requires to have fresh ink supplied to its surface, it has one or two turns given to it and then receives 5 ink from an ink-roller N, which is charged with ink and is made to bear upon it.

IVhen it is desired that the machine shall be capable of printing in two or more varieties of type, each type-arm is, as shown,made I to carry at its enda small roller 0, with two, three, or more kinds of type projecting from it. On each roller is a pinion P, which, when the type-arm is in its normal position, gears with teeth which project inwardly from a ring Q,whioh can be revolved between guides, as shown. B is a pinion also gearing with this circular toothed rack. On its spindle it has'a small head, by which it can be turned to cause the rack to turn in its guides. By o moving the rack more or less in one direction or the other any one or other of the sets of type on the type-rollers!) can be brought into acting position.

As before stated, any ordinary means may be used for traversing to and fro the cylinder A, which carries the paper, and for giving to it a turning movement after the completion of each line. In the drawings the mechanism shown as being used for this purpose is that j 0 used in what is known as the caligraph machine. In it the depression of any one or other of the horizontal levers E depresses a bar S, carried by one arm of a crank-lever T, the other arm of which carries a tooth, which, as the lever is rocked, passes from one of the toothed racks U to another. The racks are upon the sliding carriage V, which supports the cylinder A. The carriage is moved endwise in one direction by the coiled spring Y, its 4 movement being controlled by the racks in the well-known manner, and when a new line is to be commenced is brought back against the force of the spring.

In the modification of the machine shown at Figs. 4: and 5 electrounagnets are used for giving motion to the parts. The type-arms B stand normally in a vertical position, instead of in ahorizontal position, and the cylinder A, which carries the paper, is at the bottom, instead of near the top, of the machine. Each slide C is shown to be drawn in one direction by a lever E, and in the opposite direction by a coiled spring E. Similarly a pin B on the tail end of the type-arm B enters a slot in a link coupled to the lever E, and is by this link drawn in one direction, while a coiled spring B draws it in the opposite direction. The lever E is coupled by a link to the armature of one of the electro-magnets X, which is able to draw it in one direction, while a spring E draws it in the opposite direction. In thisway whenever motion is given to one of the levers E by one of the electro-magnets the ink-roller J, carried by the slide 0, is moved over and inks the. type at the end of the type-arm, and is carried onto the inkingcylinder I, and the type-arm is made to strike its blow. Conversely, when the lever E is drawn by the spring E the type-arm at once returns to its normal position before the inking-roller passes off from the inking-cylinder I, just as in the arrangement previously described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

II II are the finger-keys, and Z Z electrical contact apparatus, below each key. hen any one or other of the finger-keys is depressed, an electrical circuit is completed through the coils of one of the magnets, and the type-arm which this magnet actuates is made to strike its blow.

In Fig. 6, D is a crank-lever, which, as in the construction shown at Fig. 1, can be rocked by the depression of a finger-key.

B is a type-arm with a pin I3 on its tail end entering a slot in a link E, coupled to the lever D.

O is the slide pressed in one direction by a spring C, and drawn in the opposite direction by a pin on a link F entering a slot formed in it, as shown, the link F being itself coupled to the link E.

J is the inking-roller and I the inking-cylinder.

hen a finger-key is depressed and the crank-lever D draws the link E endwise, the spring 0' is free to press the slide 0 endwise in a direction to carry the inking-roller onto the inking-cylinder I. The link E then commences to act upon the pin B on the tail end of the lever B and causes the type-arm to strike its blow. When the link E is allowed to be drawn back in the opposite direction, the slide 0 at first remains at rest, while the type-arm is caused to return to its normal position by the action of a spring B Afterward the pin of the link F comes to the end of the slot in the slide 0, and then draws this slide into the position shown in the drawings.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, substantially as here inbefore set forth, of the main frame, the pivoted type-arms, the slides slotted at their tail ends, the projections on the tail ends of the type-arms extending into the slots of the slides, the inking-rollers connected with the slides, the finger-key levers, and connections between the finger-key levers and the slides.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the paper-carrying cylinder A, the type-arms I3, arranged radially, the slides or links C, the fin ger-key lovers from which the slides or links receive movement, the inking-rollers J, carried by the slides or links, and the inking-cylinder I.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the main frame, the pivoted type arms mounted therein, the slides connected at their tail ends to the type-arms, the inkingrollers mounted on the opposite ends of the slides, the inking-cylinder, the finger keylevers, and connections between the finger-key levers and the slides.

4. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the main frame, the horizontally-pivoted type-arms, the slides slotted at their rear ends and engaging with the typearms, the inking-rollers mounted on the slides, bell-crank levers to which the slides are connected, the finger-key levers, and connections between these levers and the bell-crank levers.

5. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the main frame, the typearins arranged radially in the arc of a circle, the slides or links arranged on the outer sides of the type-arms and connected therewith, the inking-rollers carried by the slides or links, and the inking cylinder or pad I, over which the rollers are caused to move by the slides. 6. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the main frame, the

with, the finger-key levers, connections between the finger-key levers and the slides, and the inking-rollers actuated, by the slides. 7. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the main frame, the type-arms, the finger-key levers, the slides connected therewith, connections between the finger-key levers and the slides and between the type-arms and the slides, the inking-rollers connected with and actuated by the slides in advance of the actuation of the type-arms by the slides, substantially as specified.

ALFRED H. HUTH. -Witnesses:

HERBERT E. DALE, W. SHERWOOD.

type-arms, the slides or links connected there- I Both of 17 Gracechurch Street, London, E. 0'. 

